Estudios de Deusto (Nov 2014)
Some issues on infamy and its legal consequences in Roman and Medieval law
Abstract
In the following lines we mention, in the first place, the infamy that implies, amongst other things, the loss of the reputation that a man has in his social environment. Sources belonging to different historical periods show many cases in which a person that has committed certain bad deeds is considered as infame. However, in our study, we will focus mainly in those cases having to do with certain private legal relations in which a person convicted in a sentence is, in addition, declared infame and with this purpose we analyse Roman sources and, to a lesser extent, Visigothic sources. Finally we refer to the provisions belonging to the legal text of the “Siete Partidas” which regulate the mentioned cases of infamy.Published online: 25 November 2014
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